In five months of being Greek Finance Minister, Yanis Varoufakis proved himself to be a tough negotiator who was not going to concede even a bit to Greece’s creditors, as well as a political ‘rock star’ who wins hearts and minds from atop his motorcycle.

Varoufakis never showed that he was ready to accept all the
demands Greece creditors put towards the debt-stricken nation. He
repeatedly refused bailout plan offered by the troika of
international creditors, calling it “a committee built on
rotten foundations.”

The self-declared "erratic Marxist" was apparently ready
to mutilate himself rather than agree to current terms of bailout
presented to Athens by its international creditors.

“I’d prefer to cut my arm off” than agree to current
deal, he said in an interview to Bloomberg, adding that people of
Greece are tired of “losing their dignity by signing
agreements and making pledges that simply cannot be met. Because
the financing is wrong.”

But he didn’t stop there. Only a day after the ‘cut my arm
off’ comment, Varoufakis described the creditors’
relationship with Greece as “terrorism.”

“What they are doing with Greece has a name: terrorism,”
Varoufakis told Spain’s El Mundo daily. “Why have they forced
us to close the banks? To make people frightened. And when it
comes to spreading terror, this phenomenon is called
terrorism.”

Even after his surprise resignation, Varoufakis promised that he
“shall wear the creditors’ loathing with pride.”

"Soon after the announcement of the referendum results, I was
made aware of a certain preference by some Eurogroup
participants, and assorted ‘partners’, for my… ‘absence’ from its
meetings; an idea that the prime minister judged to be
potentially helpful to him in reaching an agreement. For this
reason I am leaving the Ministry of Finance today," he said
in an online statement.

One of the reasons for leaving his post was reportedly a bitter
conflict with Jeroen Dijsselbloem, president of the Eurogroup,
which includes all the finance ministers of countries in the
Eurozone.

The Greeks were frustrated and surprised over the resignation of
their ‘rebel’ Finance Minister.

“Varoufakis is number 1,” “The Europeans want the head of
Varoufakis,” “Varoufakis is very good”, the residents of
Athens told RT’s Ilya Petrenko.

However, in the hearts and minds of his fans Varoufakis will
always remain the guy who rocks. For example, he didn’t take a
private car to go to his (now ex) boss Alexis Tsipras, he just
arrived on a motorbike.

His tough clashes with the EU and his German counterpart Wolfgang
Schäuble over Athens' debt to the Troika of European lenders were
not left unnoticed by a German show which uploaded a YouTube
video entitled ‘V for Varoufakis’.

“He’s the lost son of Zeus with a heart made of stone!”… "his
body screams of sex”… “his leather jacket is made of skin from
German shepherd puppies”… “He doesn’t negotiate, he simply kicks
ass”.

But it’s not only the Germans behind the video who believe that
Varoufakis is a badass. His fans apparently had a flight of fancy
on “the descendent of Zeus” as they photoshopped him
onto pictures of Star Trek’s Mr. Spock, Superman, John McClane
from Die Hard epic and many other action heroes.